A junior engineer, who works for a small engineering firm in Cocoa Beach. The firm focuses mostly on NASA projects.Neil is Jean’s best friend. When Jean was turned into a genie, Neil somehow became Jean’s master.

Caleyis a red head do I am going with its her. Also its the dumb kind of thing a girl would do to be near a man. Changing jobs shifts that sort of thing.
Whats up with the cross eyed look though in the first pannel?

I think that it is more likely to be Caley. She would still be Araceli’s master, and that seems like the sort of thing she’d ask for since she is supposed to have a crush on Niel. On the other hand, Kendra could be a totally new character. Eventually we’ll find out what happened with Guano, Araceli and Caley. We know that Rodge just woke up feeling stiff from having been ossified

I think if Araceli was on her own, she could try to pose as Kendra. But:

* Araceli doesn’t know enough about modern culture to really pull off Kendra’s look.
* Araceli is bound to Caley as her master now, and, moreover, seems to care for Caley–she is a traditional bottle genie, after all, or is trying to be one.

And Neil? The only “girl” Neil has shown any physical response to so far is Jean(ie). If I was writing a backstory to justify that, I would say that Neil has had so much rejection by females that he’s just stopped trying. Hey, his absolutely boldest action in that arena has been getting Jean(ie) to do some jumping jacks!

Caley would have to be pretty precocious to pull off a “Kendra.” I don’t know what age Mr. Rudd has set for her, but she seems to be smaller than the middle-schoolers we saw in “I Dream of a Nerd.” I’d peg her as nine-to-eleven years old.

Or he just isn’t interested in dating at the workplace? Nah, it couldn’t be that!

He might be looking. But he’s not looking at the office. And Kendra, no matter good looking she is, he may just not interested in her. Friends with her already, knows her well enough to not be interested in a romantic relationship with her, happy with her as a friend, yadda yadda yadda, etc.

What if it was Caley and Aracelli combined into one person? They both have a crush on Neil. Therefore Kendra would have Caley’s grasp of modern tech and Aracelli’s feminine wiles. Pretty far fetched I know, just throwing it out there.

Neil’s gonna let him get away with that “must be nice to have a body made of jello” comment? I mean, it may be true that Neil’s not exactly in the best of shape (or “the best of shapes,” that one being Stripper Natalie :p), but where does one get off calling a friend “fat”?

Trope-wise, Neil isn’t Major Nelson who was, let’s face it, not the least nerdy. And Jean is pretty much the antithesis of Jeannie because he/she is self-absorbed whereas Jeannie is focused on other people, mostly on helping them. In fact, Araceli is a lot more like the original Jeannie character than Jean (who still hasn’t got a last name after five years–come on, C.D.R, pick one out of the phone book or run another contest.)

Other women being interested in Jeannie’s master, however, is most certainly in the original IDOJ trope. Remember, Captain Nelson had a fiancee in the first episode–who was never seen again (hmmm….?)

Something totally out of the IDOJ trope but which might fit the TG trope: If Jean can never go back to being a guy, and finds she can’t abandon his attachment to Belle, couldn’t Jean change Belle into a guy? Or is that further than we are willing to go?